On Thu, Dec 06, 2007, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Regardless, even requiring debian/rules to be a makefile doesn't > > actually do much, because someone could do something like: > > .DEFAULT: > > debian/irule $@ > > or whatever. > > > People should be using make, but if they have a valid reason for doing > > something else, policy shouldn't get in the way. > > And policy doesn't get in their way, because they can just do the above...
Except it completely breaks any hope to benefit of this new Policy requirement: - passing -j2 might not be honored (Policy doesn't require it anyway) - querying the list of targets (to check for build-arch for example) with a make flag wont work either (Policy doesn't require it anyway) So arguing that you can pretend that your rules are a makefile while they are actually not is completely destroying the only benefit of the requirement... -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
